New features in iOS 11 is actually good news of any iPhone Development Company as it will enable them to develop more user friendly iOS apps. The new version of mobile OS for Apple’s smartphone includes many customizations and multitaskings and is available for download since Sept 2017. It looks like it is now time for an upgrade. Anyone with an iPhone 5 or older will not be able to download and upgrade to iOS 11. Apple’s iOS 11 is available to download on iPhones and iPads since last year. It has added various new features including the ability to customize the control center. Majority of the devices will be able to download the update for free via settings app.
If you are using any older app in your iPhone which has not been updated since long then check as they may not work after installing iOS 11 as iOS has dropped the support for 32 bit apps. Now lets discuss some of the important features Apple has updated in iOS 11. Single-page Control Center with all-new shortcuts If you are into iPhone App Development then you have to understand this new feature. Apple has switched to a three pane design to iOS 10 and now iOS 11 reintroduces control center as a single screen experience. Widgets and shortcuts now appear as individual platters which can be firmly pressed using 3D touch to reveal more functionality. For e.g. 3D touch on the music platter shows album art, track progress and volume slider. In iOS 11, Apple has also added many new optional controls like Apple TV remote, a text size button, shortcut to Wallet cards and passes etc. You can enable/disable these in Settings -> control center - > Customize controls. The control center will become scrollable if you add so many custom shortcuts on the screen. One more good thing is there is a brand new screen recording feature that can save everything you see on your iPhone screen as a movie file. You can use screen recording through control center platter, which you can switch on from the settings. Siri gets a new voice With iOS 11, Siri now supports translation from U.S English into many languages like French, German, Italian etc. There are now third party SiriKit integrations for notes and list based apps, banking apps and QR codes. Siri intelligence is also used in many places like news app, search in safari and more. The UI of the main transcript has also been updated with a customized appearance and new animated Siri orb logo. The main change for the virtual assistant in iOS 11 is a brand new synthesized voice: the US female Siri voice uses machine learning and Artificial Intelligence to convey, speak with natural inflections and actually it ultimately sounds more like a human. Apple has also used a new voice actor to record the original sound profile. If you want to use this new voice then go to Siri Settings and select the US female voice. More emoji If you want to add more emojis into your iPhone app then you can Hire iPhone Developer as he should be having expertise in new features of iOS 11. A mix of new emojis are available in iOS 11. There is no such thing as too many emojis as they are quite popular and useful. iOS 11 has many new options to spice up your messaging life. It includes breastfeeding mother to zombies, pixies, a T-rex and more. There are so many emojis from where you can choose. The Files app Apple has always maintained that you don’t really need access to the file system with iOS as it is a mobile software and not a desktop operating system. But with iOS 11, it adds a new inbuilt app called Files for doing that. Now this Files can sort out your files on your iPhone or iPad, within some apps on iCloud Driver and even some other cloud lockers like Google Drive. Do Not Disturb While Driving Apple has been trying to keep iPhone users safe hence with iOS 11, the iPhone will use GPS and other sensors to detect if its owner is driving a car. If it finds that the user is driving then the phone will automatically silence itself and keep the screen off to minimize distractions. The iPhone can even send an automatic text message as a reply if people try to contact you while you are driving on the road, ofcourse you have to enable the option. You can also disable the Do Not Disturb While Driving feature in Settings if you want. Conclusion Apple is known for its innovative products such as iPhone iPad etc. Apple has already introduced many advanced features in iOS 10 but with the above new features in iOS 11, Apple has made its strategy quite clear that it will continue to upgrade iOS with new technologies. With use of machine learning and AI, Siri sounds much more like human now. Also other new features are also liked by iPhone users. All of these features will make the user experience of iPhone users more user friendly and intuitive.
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